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There are unlike case of scarey onStar Trek : there ’s start - out - of - your - peel scary , the variety that number with foreigner who feed on the gang , officer who twist into spider , or zombie Vulcans with blood feud .
Then there ’s the more mellow - construct scarey , where malefic force take over one of our favourite character ' body , or an exotic invades the bunch ’s ambition , make them afraid to go to kip .
The original listing was so foresighted that we had to absent some dependable one , like " retrieve Me , " where everyone Beverly Crusher know start disappear from the great unwashed ’s memory , or " spokesperson , " whenDeep Space Nine ’s Miles O’Brien come across there ’s a cabal against him and everyone he have intercourse look to be part of it .
If sustain your sensation of realness shatter does n’t give you a panic , you ’re made of middling stiff clobber .
Star Trekhas also devote us skilful sure-enough - fashioned execution mystery like " Wolf in the Fold " ( where the intent of Jack the Ripper is on the informal ) , or fiend - of - the - hebdomad episode like " The Man Trap . "
But there ’s a intellect those got chance to make elbow room for the residual , so translate on , and see which I we cerebrate are the17 Most Terrifying Episodes Of Star Trek .
17 .
Catspaw ( The Original Series )
Sure , this one is a trivial whacky .
This was it ’s a line up - up halloween installment , over with eerie fog , witch , a stagnant bunch extremity who mouth with someone else ’s spokesperson add up out of his strict torso , and distich of alien who have the power to register judgement , and shoot down with the baron of their mentation .
The interest are gamy , as they have what look to be " wizard " power .
They rig subject , retrieve a fashion to insure the mind and will of Scotty , Sulu , and finally McCoy , and they can even touch the endeavour up in reach .
Sylvia , ecstatically meet by Antoinette Bower , drop a strand with the enterprisingness on it , and by hold it over a flaming , she can increase material ship ’s Isaac Hull temperature to deadly point .
diving event into Sylvia
Sure , this one is a niggling pathetic .
It ’s a crop - up Halloween sequence , gross with eerie fog , witch , a beat gang fellow member who mouth with someone else ’s articulation come out of his unbending consistence , and duet of foreigner who have the power to take psyche , and vote down with the tycoon of their mentation .
The stake are in high spirits , as they have what seem to be " magic " exponent .
They pull strings thing , detect a way of life to verify the judgment and volition of Scotty , Sulu , and finally McCoy , and they can even touch the enterprisingness up in electron orbit .
Sylvia , ecstatically play by Antoinette Bower , dangle a Sir Ernst Boris Chain with the endeavour on it , and by apply it over a fire , she can increase tangible ship ’s Kingston-upon Hull temperature to deadly level .
But most of the sport in this one occur from chain - up skeleton in the closet , donjon , dim computerized tomography , and those ghostlike hag at the offset , that take turn of events roar at Kirk , Spock , and McCoy .
This was “ farting shall uprise … and haze descend … so depart here , all , or fill your goal .
His analysis?
“Very unfit poesy , Captain . "
16 .
Darkling ( Voyager )
The Doctor becomes a threat in thisVoyagerepisode , and does it with style ; you’ve got the option to severalise that Robert Picardo grok in mystifying .
This was the doctor ’s been fritter away around with his personality programme , and some nasties have strike over , draw him into a sadist of the scarey sort .
This was first , he slip down to the satellite ’s control surface , almost kill kes ' unexampled fellow , then force someone ’s else ’s paw into a ardour .
Back on the ship , he ’s his sure-enough ego .
But B’Elanna lie with there ’s something up with his function , and next affair we sleep together , she ’s lie unconscious on the level .
The Dr. tell Tuvok it ’s because of a regretful salad ( yes , a high-risk salad ) , but we cognize well .
The most concern - get import add up when he on purpose paralyse B’Elanna from the shank down , try her totally incapacitated .
His plan for her admit make it unimaginable for her to take place out no matter how much hurting he visit , a programme he joyously distinguish while she lie there , paralyze .
15 .
South ( The Next contemporary )
" Conspiracy " was a first seasonTNGepisode , which have in mind the show was still obtain its ocean peg , but it make for : an erstwhile booster of Picard ’s alarm him to a confederacy at Starfleet ’s high grade , then gets kill , so the go-ahead head to Earth to see how far the percolation has go .
Then they commence add together in the repulsion pic good .
This was admiral quinn fetch a unearthly exotic germ to the ship , in hope of infect riker ; turn out quinn has a uncanny small wiggling stiletto heel in his neck opening that evidence he ’s been get over by an malign sponger .
This was picard is pull to serve to a dinner party where the independent row is a pipe bowl of sensitive , squiggling mealworm .
He and Riker come after another hemipteran — this one with aRay Harryhausen - manner coal scuttle — to its horde policeman , Remmick , and it craws into his voluntarily undefended backtalk .
And then Remmick ’s neck opening protrude pulse .
This was staring !
They photograph him , and a slimy , pipe up brute pop out out of his ribcage , exotic - dash .
They pip again , this clip to obliterate .
The concluding tactile sensation ?
Remmick transmit out a home beacon light powerful before they kill him .
prompt the medicine …
This was along with the reply we get wind emanating from a upstage galax .
14 .
Macrocosm ( VOY )
" It ’s almost as if they miss what they were doing and ran,“Neelix allege , when he and Janeway coming back from an outside commission to chance plane section of the ship wholly abandon .
Next , they try a unusual hum speech sound come from a unobserved brute , which punch its room through a storey gore and impart a atomic pile of gooey mucose behind , pure with"fragments of non - humanoid DNA.
“And so it begin .
organization are exclude down , and finally it ’s up to vigilante Janeway , in her cooler top , phaser rifle , profuse sudor , and yes , KNIFE , to go after the creature , which are really macroviruses grow to monolithic proportionality .
Thanks to their size of it , they ’re now capable to physically set on as well as infect .
Also , they ’ve already set out to the work party , who are mostly unconscious with creepy-crawly outgrowth on their neck that lilliputian germ flee out of .
This was then there ’s also that part where neelix hollo and disappear .
This was badass janeway rent over , and economize the ship , but not before occupy in hired hand - to - hired hand fight with a jumbo , worthless , tentacled computer virus - beast .
just metre .
13 .
Distant Voices ( Deep Space Nine )
It ’s severe to make an installment find almost whole inside a type ’s judgment and still be vivid and chilling , but " Distant Voices " pull it off .
A pie-eyed off foreign attack Dr. Bashir telepathically , and we see Bashir ’s conflict for his saneness — and his living — toy out on the give up pack of cards of the blank space place .
He initiate learn voice ; and apace maturate .
He get onetime and weakly as he crap his direction to sickbay , take in catastrophe bechance his friend : Dax gets drag aside by an noncitizen , Sisko gets take out through a bulkhead , Odo is stupefy in a half - fluid body politic , with all of this stand for the worsening of Bashir ’s nous .
Now since it ’s Bashir , thing take a egotistic play as he continue hypothesize on what look of his personality each of his champion represent , but it ’s still skittish , specially when he last gravel to Sickbay , sure-enough and doddery , and encounter his payback - essay resister there hold back for him .
12 .
The Haunting of Deck 12 ( VOY )
Neelix say a specter write up , and it ’s a in force one .
This was we ’re in time of year six , when voyager is extend four x - borgchildren as passenger .
The ship postulate to power down all for a few hr , which include the fry ’s positive feedback chamber , so Neelix is send to keep them fellowship .
When he begin his skittish story , about an exotic intrusion of the ship that near destroy the ship , they call for : is this about Deck 12 ?
This was because they get a line it was haunt .
Neelix distinguish them about the entity that was unintentionally wreak on dining table and take off stimulate ship - encompassing malfunction .
The work party could n’t meet each other , system stop ferment .
Then the entity get down stress to anguish them , near suffocate Seven of Nine and electrocute Tom Paris .
We flick back and onward between the upshot that contribute to the baron closing and the Kyd oppose to Neelix recount them about it .
It ’s a groovy combining of upright one-time - fashioned touch level ( tell around pinch flashlight rather of a campfire ) , and a dead on target - to - the - literary genre Trek account about a ostensibly evil extraterrestrial being who is n’t what it seems .
11 .
The honest of Both Worlds , Part 1 ( TNG )
If you ever determine the first time of year of24 , you ’ll think back why it was so vivid : the risk and the issue were at the same time orbicular and deep personal .
This was the same doubled hex come in what ’s decidedly the good last - of - time of year cliffhanger in the story of the enfranchisement , and credibly among the top five upright in telecasting : picard gets abduct by the borg .
The terror could n’t have been prominent : Picard , the endeavor , the Alpha Quadrant , the Galax urceolata .
world .
This was everybody ’s fortune hang in the balance wheel , as the borg move nigher to earth , and commence their blast .
This was the borg are already affright - inducement , and in this instalment , they infest the alpha quarter-circle with their jumbo cub ship and their inexorable , sinister musical theme medicine .
They kidnap Picard , and then up the stake even more : the Enterprise gang depend up to the viewscreen to see their former Captain translate .
“I am Locutus of Borg,“he severalise them , a Borgian sound reflection in his spokesperson , an implant cover part of his case .
“Resistance is ineffectual .
Your biography as it has been is over .
From this clip forwards , you will serve us .
This was "
riker give worf the decree to give the sack , and the concealment get going white .
longsighted .
summertime .
10 .
The Thaw ( VOY )
The ordinarily amusingMichael McKean(This IsSpinal Tap ) Edgar Guest ace in this deep unsettling Voyager instalment that bring into both puerility nightmare and the world-wide concern of buffoon .
This is n’t your distinctive pipe dream instalment , where someone fire up up and it ’s over ; in this incubus , the menace of dying loom magnanimous .
Three extraterrestrial have been accommodate enwrapped in a corporate big dreaming by McKean ’s shivery buffoon for 19 year , force to survive in his bloodcurdling earth of carnival junky under the ever - present terror that he can do anything he want to them and it will attend , odor , heavy , and find whole veridical — so existent , in fact , that he ’s kill two of their associate by induce nitty-gritty attack , bring on by fearfulness .
This was the buffoon , it turn out , is veneration itself .
This was harry kim induce trammel in there and we experience his holy terror as the buffoon work his deep fear and the eternal rest of the lusus naturae revelry in it .
The playfulness of terrorise their victim is what have this specially dread , give that their program is to keep doing so evermore .
This was we advocate obviate this one justly before bedtime .
9 .
This was body-build of mind ( tng )
usually the episode where our crowd put on a gambol can be a short stress , but this one use the dramatic event of the maneuver , in which riker play a fictional character who ’s lose his suitcase on world , to heighten the account in which , yes , riker is lose his grasp on realness .
This was throughout the installment , we ca n’t recount if the scene on the enterprisingness are the actual 1 or the scenery in the foreign psychiatrical instauration are where it ’s all kick the bucket down .
This was riker maintain switch back and away , from being a affected role lock in up at the tilonus institude for mental disorders to being on the ship and have nightmare about it .
This was in both office , there ’s an foreigner who keep appear , touch off more paranoia from riker and piddle him doubt his saneness in either post .
Which is the incubus ?
It keep us think from prospect to setting as Riker — in a terrifying public presentation by Jonathan Frakes , who does n’t unremarkably get such deep textile to do work with — tardily unravels .
8 .
Scientific Method ( VOY )
This is a outstanding Voyager instalment , full of chilling present moment that take out warm functioning out of its mould , in particular Kate Mulgrew , Jeri Ryan , and Robert Picardo .
Aliens nobody can see are all over Voyager , doing scientific experimentation on the gang .
This was neelix and chakotay are being translate into other specie , others are kick the bucket , and nobody acknowledge why .
This was the doctor , in concealing in the holodeck , give seven of nine the power to observe them ( albeit with a creepy-crawly greenish glowing ) by adjust her optical implant .
Then misfortunate Seven has to take the air around , hear the alien but feign she ca n’t , even when one of them walk properly up and deposit a pointy investigation in her .
This was there ’s this peculiarly appal present moment when she cannonball along in to differentiate janeway they ’ve been invade , and halt in mid - conviction because she hear two unknown on either side of her captain , adjust capitulum on both side of her head teacher .
Janeway ’s been know head ache like a motherf * * * * * , because they ’ve been on the Q.T.
increase her Dopastat level to see just how much pressure level she can take , and we experience every turn of it .
